What will happen if Cheney has to step down for "health reasons"

[gardenista]

Poll question: What will happen if Cheney has to step down for "health reasons"

And do you think the new VP will be the future nominee for 2008?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Dick's doing fine ........

[Skittles]

4. ER.........................

:puke:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Jeez. I think he should change his name to "The Stud".

:popcorn:

[gardenista]

7. I should not have opened that. Well, I guess Condi doesn't

really have what it takes!

[pinniped]

13. Doctored pic, that SOB shoved one of these down his pants:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/01/15/MNG3FGMHML1.DTL&o=2

On second thought, this could be where his reserve battery pack resides.

[Freedom_Aflaim]

43. No wonder hes having so much trouble

That circuit board isnt even seated!!!

[AGKISTRODON]

2. Possible

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/a_succession.htm

[Journeyman]

5. Excellent, informative website, AGKISTRODON. . .

I look forward to reading it at greater length -- the section on Presidential health histories looks especially interesting. Thanks for the link. And welcome to DU.

[gardenista]

8. Thanks. Great website. nt

[Skittles]

3. puppet bush will need someone else's hand up his ass

no doubt

[gardenista]

9. And who better than Condi? She knows all the right moves. nt

[Skittles]

15. not sure there would be room for both her AND Karl Rove

no doubt they'd fight over it

[gardenista]

34. and no doubt Condi would kick his ass, but not Skittles-style

Which is what he deserves.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Condi is poised to take over.

:D

[rodeodance]

11. I think if this happens, Rummy will do too--to their Maryland mansions.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. He will be replaced by

whomever the annointed successor is, and I don't know who that would be at this point. I doubt very much it would be Condi. I don't think it will be Jeb; even these guys have to know that there will be Bush fatigue and that they would be pushing it too far to run Jeb in the next election. I don't think it will be McCain; not popular with the neocons and theocons that make up these folks base.

Probably someone that we're not really thinking about right now.

[NewJeffCT]

14. Giuliani

He has the Pat Robertson stamp of approval... and Rudy scores well with moderates.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. I doubt it.

After what they did to Clinton, I can't believe that even they would be brazen enough to put up a man who tried to move his mistress into the house he was sharing with his wife and children while he was mayor. He may score well with moderates, but even with Pat Robertson's stamp of approval, I doubt that the conservative Christians will go for a man who is pro-choice and pro gay rights, as well as his personal indiscretions. Moderates might just as easily go for a Democrat, and they would risk losing their far right base with Rudy.

I just don't see it.

[NewJeffCT]

18. I see it very easily

He fits the neo-con foreign policy mold, and since he is a Republican he can write off the mistress episode by saying he was a bad man and it was a youthful indescretion.

Again, if he has the Pat Robertson stamp of approval, he will get the "whackos" of the Religious Right to vote for them.

[Chiyo-chichi]

19. Youthful indescretion?

Wasn't he in his mid-fifties at the time?

[NewJeffCT]

25. But, he's a Republican

If Strom Thurmond had an affair a few years ago, it would still be considered a youthful indescretion...

[Crunchy Frog]

28. LOL! You may be right.

We'll just have to see what happens. If Robertson pushed Giuliani he might end up being ripe for overthrow by some new young upstart. The whole thing would be rather entertaining at any rate.

[cboy4]

16. I think Condi would step in, but I'm not sure

that the idiot in the White House would appoint Dumbsfeld as Sec of State.

[gardenista]

36. I wonder who else would be in the wings for SOS

[Sparkman]

20. NO ONE STEPS IN...Mein Fuhrer ist nicht einen putz...ein uber allis?

Sorry, meinen Deutsch ist von 1960's. Alf heiter Sein, Amerika.

[The Whiskey Priest]

21. You Mean "What would happen" after the big party I would throw?

I suppose I would try to sleep off a hangover.

[gardenista]

37. I never know how to feel when another one of them gets knocked down

It's like playing Zelda. There's always a scarier monster in the next room.

[johnfunk]

22. Ralph Reed replaces Cheney, preventing his indictment

(or at least postponing it)

[gardenista]

38. Interesting scenario. nt

[catmandu57]

23. I think there's a horserace going on now

to fill the position. Everybody knows snarlin dick is not going to make it three more years, there's probably a big ass fight going on under the surface between the neocons, fundies and old guard reukes.
There is a fatigue, and if these people are any good at all at predicting the future, we'll see the old guard come out on top.

[UTUSN]

24. Yip, it's all just the timing that is being fine-tuned

I believe this has been the plan from Day 1.

[gardenista]

39. I tend to agree

It's just a matter of the timing as regards the Plame Investigation, and how things shake out with the Abramoff Scandal.

[AGKISTRODON]

26. No "Horserace"

The sucession sequence is specified by law.

[troubleinwinter]

27. That is wrong.

The succession assumes the death or incapacitation of the president and his successors.

If the VP steps down or dies, the pres appoints a successor, subject to confirmation by the senate.

Remember when Spiro Agnew resigned? Ford was nominated and confirmed.

[gardenista]

32. It's going to be interesting to watch it unfold.

I am almost certain that this will happen within the next three months.

[Johonny]

29. end of time

Bush trys to be president.

[WI_DEM]

30. Bush would want nothing better than to elevate Condi

and divide the Democratic party because the AA vote might be divided.

[gardenista]

40. Hmmm... then how will they decide which precincts to under-stock

with voting machines? That will be interesting...

My hope is that the African Americans in this country will see through her.

[Yupster]

31. Most likely McCain

If Bush wants to make history, then Kay Bailey Hutchison or Elizabeth Dole.

[gardenista]

41. Now that's a concept.

I wonder how Liddy Dole fits in with the Neocon agenda.

Need to do some research...

[DanCa]

33. wouldn't the speaker of the house take over?

Just wondering.

[gardenista]

44. Nope. The President appoints the VP successor unless he, too,

is incapacitated.

[sakabatou]

35. Whoever the hell Bush wants as VP

[obxhead]

42. Not Condi, but I couldn't guess who's next.....

Jeb will wait until 2012 to run as far as I can guess.